A Dutch engineer wants to transform an expanse of arid land into green, fertile land teeming with wildlife — and in the ...

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the ...

Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing. Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, the capital of Mali. This was their first attack there in almost a decade. Last month, at least 100 ...

Massive, migrating dust clouds originating in the Sahara Desert are crucial to fostering life in the Atlantic Ocean as far ...

The worst floods in decades across a swath of West and Central Africa are deepening a record food-insecurity crisis in a ...

On September 9, jihadist militants launched a coordinated assault on several Christian villages in Burkina Faso, resulting in ...

Iron bound to dust from the Sahara blown westward over the Atlantic has properties that change with the distance traveled.

The answer is found on the other side of the Atlantic, where the Sahara Desert just had weeks of unprecedented rainfall.

Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ...

African states need to start working more closely with their neighbours, both in terms of purchasing disaster supplies as well as in responding to emergencies. Many African countries are very small, ...

Many countries around the world suffer from the problems caused by desertification but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are greatest. The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which ...

The ambush reveals the dangers faced by Russian mercenary forces working for military juntas in Africa. The arid Sahel region is host to separatists and powerful offshoots of Islamic State and Al ...